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This is a short excerpt from the book What Does the Month of Your Birth Reveal About You, only focusing on January facts. The month of our birth might reveal a lot about who we were born to be. A frequent strategy in numerology is to determine a person's personality based on their birth month. Scientists and statisticians have determined that the month of one's birth influences everything from professional choices to attitude. How the stars were aligned at the time of your birth might reveal a great deal about you as a person.

Carson Woodard and Michael Vaughn Green deep dive into influential comic arcs and their creators. Exploring the history of the book, the individuals who worked on the book and how those comics changed an entire industry.

This podcast is a dedication to the late, great film critic, Roger Ebert. If you're a film-goer, you most likely already know that the "Fruit Cart!" was Ebert's favorite movie trope! I’ve added a weekly segment in honor of Ebert and his long-time collaborator, Gene Siskel. A few dissections here and there along with weekly games, trivia, and even the occasional deep dive into obscure cinema. Did I mention there will be actor impersonations? 🍉 🛒 🎞

Unfiltered conversations with Tanya Conner-Green and Michael Thompson about the REAL LIFE HUSTLE of being an entrepreneur. In each episode, we pick a topic that matter to entrepreneurs, and we dissect it using our different perspectives.

Positive People Posse focuses on story telling, self help, overcoming challenges, entrepreneurship and living life with a positive mindset. Live Freely + Stay Positive, Positive People Posse

Teachers unite and join me for a short break on your way to or from the classroom with teaching ESL (English as a Second Language) in Hong Kong. I'll take you on a few journeys - past and present - that explore the dynamics inside and outside of the classroom here in Hong Kong and juxtapose to those in America - with a little cultural immersion along the way.

Are you trying to make it in the Entertainment Industry? Still justifying to others why working for ‘no pay’ is great for your exposure? Are you eagerly awaiting your ‘big break’ moment? Well SO ARE THEY! Join THE DUNCES - Mike, Shannon and Daniel - 3 people you’ve never heard of, as they interview other people you’ve also never heard of! Laugh, cringe and commiserate as they divulge their most embarrassing failures and moments in their attempts to make it to that 1% that fully live off their craft. It’s time to celebrate the failures…come ‘dunce’ with us!!

The Tentacles Stretch invites you on a journey through the soundtracks of people's lives. In this podcast, Michael Green plays musical detective, unravelling the stories and memories from each guest's back catalogue. From childhood anthems to guilty pleasures, we explore the tunes that shaped their moments. It's like a musical time machine, where every episode is a personal mixtape of laughter, nostalgia, and the shared melodies that stitch our life stories together.

For more than 50 years Michael Green's The Art of Coarse Acting has been essential reading for anyone with a passion for theatre, both amateurs and professionals alike. This acerbic yet affectionate work remains one of the funniest books about acting ever written. It's a "[W]ickedly irreverent" (The Stage) exposé which ridicules pretentiousness, pokes fun at incompetence and disaster and generally lays bare life backstage. Even after all this time it remains true that however much the theatre may change, coarse actors don't.

The online posting had turned an unknown organization into a national sensation. Now, 20 desperate players, each dreaming of the three million dollars prize, travel to a remote island to participate in the two-day contest. But as the game begins, the players learn the rules have changed. Victory comes at a price. Set in the near future, Concealment 48 is a story of survival and sacrifice, of putting aside differences for the common good.

Acclaimed historians Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green paint a moving portrait of the infamous Trail of Tears. Despite protests from statesmen like Davy Crockett, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay, a dubious 1838 treaty drove 17,000 mostly Christian Cherokee from their lush Appalachian homeland to barren plains beyond the Mississippi. For 4,000, this brutal forced march lead only to their deaths.

Before the "Bronx Zoo" of George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin, there were the Oakland Athletics of the early 1970s, one of the most successful, most colorful - and most chaotic - baseball teams of all time. They were all of those things because of Charlie Finley. Not only the A's owner, he was also the general manager, personally assembling his team, deciding his players' salaries, and making player moves during theseason - a level of involvement no other owner, not even Steinbrenner, engaged in.

This is a collection of seven contemporary robot tales written by some of today's most acclaimed science fiction authors. A sentient war machine combs a beach for trinkets to create memorials for its fallen comrades in the Hugo Award-winning story, "Tideline", by Elizabeth Bear. In "Balancing Accounts", by James Cambias, a small-time independent robotic space tug is hired by a mysterious client for a voyage between two of Saturn's moons.

Not What You Think not only blows the dust off dated misperceptions of this ancient book, it engages the problems of the Bible head-on - the parts that make modern readers squeamish, skeptical, and uncertain. Join Michael and Lauren as they explore the nature of the Bible - an ancient mosaic of story, literature, history, and poetry - and what it means for this generation and its relationship with God.